We’re here live at SMX Advanced in Seattle where Matt Cutts is on stage being interviewed. Matt Cutts said that Google Webmaster Penalty emails will start to Include Examples of Bad Links in them. Cutts stated “One thing that’s new is we’re testing the inclusion of example URLs — when we send a manual action …
We’ve covered the DuckDuckGo vs Google war in the past… We know it’s not the closest race in the world but DuckDuckGo released some impressive new stats today that they have passed 2 Million searches in one day! It’s not compared to the billions daily that Google, Bing or Facebook have but it’s a really good start. …
Mobile is huge and you can’t deny it. More and more searches are being conducted via mobile search. Whenever technology advances, it generally takes a while before all the kinks are worked out and everybody is on board with the new changes. Many webmasters have already adopted the changes and many have yet to get …
I’ve doing a lot of digging into Google Authorship for some time now. It’s amazing to watch Google experiment with it! But how does it all work? There are a lot of people who have found themselves confused by Google Authorship and how to use it properly. There are few very helpful cheatsheets to help …
image credit: ShutterStock One of the fastest ways to boost profits is to turn your attention away from traffic for a while and start thinking about your conversion rate. If you’re like most sites on the web, you’re throwing a lot of sales out the window by making some simple mistakes or missing a few key pointers. …
Conferences play a disproportionately large role in internet marketing in general and SEO specifically. The main for this is that it’s a fairly small industry, so connections and networking matter more than most. Attending conferences is a great way to get in front of potential clients and industry peers to share your services and develop …
Phew! What a month for the SEO industry and the SEJ during May! In this post I’ll be summarizing the top 6 articles. #1 – We experienced another Google Penguin update http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-just-unleashed-its-penguin-2-0-update/63868/ Not only did this shake the SERPs up, but we also learned the difference between a data refresh and an algorithm update. …
Brave New SEO World? I’ve been reading lots of articles lately about the forever altered post-Panda and post-Penguin SEO landscape… a land where content is once again king… a land where trust and identity are key… a land where you might not want the kinds of links you used to want. Many of these articles state, quite rightly, …
So I’m watching #WWDC today, Apples big event. Today they’ve launched a new Macbook Air, Mac Pro and among other things… iOS 7. You should all know that I’m a huge Apple Fanboy and pretty much buy anything they put out (lame I know). It was notable today that Apple’s Eddy Cue mentioned iOS7 Siri …
A typical life-cycle for most effective SEO tactics (and really most marketing tactics follow a similar trajectory) looks something like: Tactic starts to work, and it’s relatively rare that companies are executing it It’s identified by a growing number of SEOs and site owners and begins to be talked about frequently It gets scaled and abused Tactic …
